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Australian no. 69 salt shaker on ebay

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ewag2

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Hi,

This item is currently on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRITISH-No-...073?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item258c3e3939

It is a pretty cool salt shaker, but if you've been wanting one of these rare grenades for your collection, it's also a pretty upsetting salt shaker.

I wanted to share it here in case anyone was interested in it, but also because I'm curious about other people's opinions about it. I can see that it might be useful for parts, if you need them, but do some think it would be better to keep it as a salt shaker? What do people think about things like this being done to uncommon or rare items? Is it best to leave them as-is? (I wondered the same thing a while back when I saw a lamp made with the frag body of a British no. 19 grenade.)

Regards,
Rob
 
I have a set of salt and pepper shakers made from Australian No. 69's. For the rest, for me anyway, if its a well done piece, I tend to leave them alone. If its poorly done and has some parts i can use, I will take them apart. Sometimes I can remove a needed part without hurting the "trench art" too much, then I have the best of both. I have a small collection of things that have been made from grenades, lamps seem the most common.
 

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Rob, I certainly would never turn a perfectly good No.69 to a salt shaker. But Ive got several 'trench art' type grenades, cigarette lighters & stuff. Thanks for the heads up. Maybe I'll add one to that part of the collection. Thanks again, Rob!
 
Sgtlynn,
I think your approach to this makes a lot of sense. Thanks for you reply and for sharing your s+p shakers. Those are nice looking pieces. With the three I've now seen, I think I've seen about as many of these made into shakers as I've seen unmodified ones!

Rob
 
Timmymac,
I agree that I wouldn't modify one of these myself either. (Even though they clearly make good salt shakers!) Good luck on the auction!
Rob
 
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Those are very nice, thanks for sharing! The turtle grenade is especially interesting. I think this is the first time I've seen something done with one of those.
 
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